If you don't remember this, go to the Twitter thread and read all 10 tweets. If you do remember it, odds are you don't remember muc much about what happened after the neighborhood burned down.On this date - May 13, 1985 - Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter on a home owned by radical black nationalist group MOVE, destroying the house, killing 5 adults and 6 children, and causing a fire that burned down 61 black middle class homes. 1/ pic.twitter.com/WJQmJwbsbG— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) May 14, 2019
What you certainly don't remember is ant "Black Power" movement arising from this governmental disaster. No act of terror in retribution, a la Waco. No publicly violent effort to promote revolution.
This wasn't Ruby Ridge. It wasn't Waco. It was black Americans, not white. And it was forgotten, for that very reason. But black Americans, not even one of them, also didn't think they were entitled to enact terrible judgment on government. Despite the fact it took a war and 100 years after that war to get government in this country to begin to treat them like persons.
Which is why this catastrophe happened 34 years ago. Because we still couldn't treat them like humans. But it is white people who are oppressed, and struggling against injustice, and aggrieved in this land.
Sure it is. This is what "white privilege" looks like.
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